Page 171 - Book Reviews
Primary colours of the Indian stock market
The author believes that the government's huge divestment programme is largely responsible for the monopoly-like situation arising in the secondary issues market because it crowds out private players
Demolishing an idea of India
In Destruction of the Babri Masjid A G Noorani may seem alarmist, his language somewhat bitter. But then, the evocation of memories of December 6, 1992, cannot be done any differently
Indian caricaturists: jesters as commentators
Understanding what makes political caricature funny to some but not to others is critical today, the author of these analyses of Indian caricature through the ages tells this writer
 "Indian caricaturists: jesters as commentators")
Jaipur Day One: Naipaul's tears, cellphones and Charlie Hebdo
Encouraging turnout for the festival with average age being 21 years
 "Jaipur Day One: Naipaul's tears, cellphones and Charlie Hebdo")
Lunch with BS: Atul Gawande
The humane face of medicine
 "Lunch with BS: Atul Gawande")
Strong medicine
The memoir of K Anji Reddy, founder of Dr Reddy's Laboratories, published nearly two years after his death, chronicles the battle over Grastim, its first domestically manufactured recombinant therapeu
 "Strong medicine")
Rajesh Khanna: The lonely superstar
A new book by Yasser Usman traces the spectacular rise and dramatic fall of Rajesh Khanna, along with his insecurities and other angularities. An extract
 "Rajesh Khanna: The lonely superstar")
Coke, like greed, is good
Halfway into Citizen Coke, Bartow J Elmore describes taking a treacherous journey through an Indian jungle in 2010
The colony in retrospect
Memories of Belonging opens up a dimension that has not been examined much by academic historians
 "The colony in retrospect")